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Photo Flash: Danna Schaeffer's One Woman Show YOU IN MIDAIR Premieres

Photo Flash: Danna Schaeffer's One Woman Show YOU IN MIDAIR Premieres

by BWW News Desk — October 7, 2017
Writer, teacher, therapist, lobbyist and actor Danna Schaeffer will present her one-woman show, You in Midair, from October 5 through 15, at New Expressive Works.
Artists Repertory Theatre to Present Christopher Chen's CAUGHT

Artists Repertory Theatre to Present Christopher Chen's CAUGHT

by BWW News Desk — October 5, 2017
Artists Repertory Theatre presents Caught, a show centered around Chinese dissident artist Lin Bo that combines visual art and live theatre installations.
MOJADA: A MEDEA IN LOS ANGELES Comes to the Armory

MOJADA: A MEDEA IN LOS ANGELES Comes to the Armory

by BWW News Desk — October 4, 2017
The Oregon Shakespeare Festival production of Luis Alfaro's Mojada: A Medea in Los Angeles comes to The Armory after a triumphant six-month run in Ashland.
Oregon Shakespeare Festival Offering $10 Rush Tickets to Benefit Food Drive

Oregon Shakespeare Festival Offering $10 Rush Tickets to Benefit Food Drive

by BWW News Desk — October 2, 2017
The Oregon Shakespeare Festival is offering discounted $10 rush tickets for 18 performances to benefit ACCESS and the Ashland Emergency Food Bank.
Nominations Now Open for the 2017 BroadwayWorld Portland Awards!

Nominations Now Open for the 2017 BroadwayWorld Portland Awards!

by BWW News Desk — October 2, 2017
Nominations are NOW OPEN for the 2017 BroadwayWorld Regional Awards! Regional productions, touring shows, community theatre and more are all included, honoring productions which opened between October 1, 2016 through September 30, 2017.
Tess Gallagher, Wife and Partner of the Late Raymond Carver, Set for Evening at Imago

Tess Gallagher, Wife and Partner of the Late Raymond Carver, Set for Evening at Imago Theatre

by BWW News Desk — September 30, 2017
On September 30th, Imago Theatre presents an evening with Tess Gallagher, wife and partner of the late Raymond Carver (1938 - 1988).
HAND TO GOD Blasts Onto Triangle's Stage Opening 28th Season

HAND TO GOD Blasts Onto Triangle's Stage Opening 28th Season

by BWW News Desk — September 30, 2017
After the death of his father, meek Jason finds an outlet for his anxiety at the Christian Puppet Ministry, in the devoutly religious, relatively quiet small town of Cypress, Texas.
Cynthia Fuhrman Named Managing Director at Portland Center Stage at The Armory

Cynthia Fuhrman Named Managing Director at Portland Center Stage at The Armory

by BWW News Desk — September 28, 2017
Artistic Director Chris Coleman announced today that Cynthia Fuhrman has been named Managing Director at Portland Center Stage at The Armory, the city's largest professional theater company.
David Ornette Cherry with COMIN' AND GOIN' to Honor Jim Pepper at Artists Rep

David Ornette Cherry with COMIN' AND GOIN' to Honor Jim Pepper at Artists Rep

by BWW News Desk — September 28, 2017
Organic Nation Listening Club returns to Artists Rep with Jazz and World Music composer David Ornette Cherry's new show COMIN' AND GOIN', a special evening of music performance that integrates music with storytelling about Portland's late, great, Native American musician Jim Pepper.
Photo Flash: EVERY BRILLIANT THING Opens Friday at the Amory

Photo Flash: EVERY BRILLIANT THING Opens Friday at the Amory

by BWW News Desk — September 27, 2017
Local favorite Isaac Lamb will take the stage for Every Brilliant Thing, a play that tackles the impact of depression using a life-affirming list and a partly-improvised structure that engages audiences in a way never before seen at The Armory.
THE EVENTS by David Greig Comes to Third Rail in October

THE EVENTS by David Greig Comes to Third Rail in October

by BWW News Desk — September 26, 2017
In the rehearsal room of a community choir, Claire and her colleague encounter a visitor who makes an impossible demand: I have one bullet left.
OCT's Young Professionals Company presents JASPER IN DEADLAND

OCT's Young Professionals Company presents JASPER IN DEADLAND

by BWW News Desk — September 26, 2017
17-year-old Jasper is struggling to make sense of his life.
OSF Commission ROE Wins PEN Literary Award

OSF Commission ROE Wins PEN Literary Award

by BWW News Desk — September 25, 2017
Roe, a riveting drama by Lisa Loomer about central figures in the American abortion rights debate that debuted at OSF in April 2016, is the winner of The PEN Center USA 2017 Literary Award for Drama.
Review Roundup: HAND TO GOD at Triangle Theatre

Review Roundup: HAND TO GOD at Triangle Theatre

by BWW News Desk — September 25, 2017
HAND TO GOD plays through September 30 at Triangle Theatre in Portland, and the critics are weighing in!
Defunkt Theatre Presents INSIGNIFICANCE by Terry Johnson

Defunkt Theatre Presents INSIGNIFICANCE by Terry Johnson

by BWW News Desk — September 23, 2017
Award winning playwright Terry Johnson imagines a 1950's hotel room in which The Scientist and The Actress (who look suspiciously like Albert Einstein and Marilyn Monroe) meet and discuss the universe, guilt, regret, the meaning of life.
Photo Flash: FUN HOME Kicks Off Portland Center Stage at The Armory's 30th Anniversar

Photo Flash: FUN HOME Kicks Off Portland Center Stage at The Armory's 30th Anniversary Season

by BWW News Desk — September 20, 2017
Portland Center Stage at The Armory's 30th anniversary season opens with the groundbreaking, Tony Award-winning musical Fun Home.
Milagro Presents EXODO: A Day of the Dead Production Next Month

Milagro Presents EXODO: A Day of the Dead Production Next Month

by BWW News Desk — September 20, 2017
How do you carry those you left behind? Milagro's 22nd annual D a de Muertos production brings a new, company devised espect culo built around the theme of diaspora to the stage.
X Marks the Spot! Oregon Children's Theatre to Stage 'JUDY MOODY & STINK'

X Marks the Spot! Oregon Children's Theatre to Stage 'JUDY MOODY & STINK'

by BWW News Desk — September 19, 2017
X marks the spot as Judy and her brother Stink set sail on a nautical adventure to find Cap'n Weevil's secret pirate treasure.
HUMAN NOISE Opens Thursday at Imago Theatre

HUMAN NOISE Opens Thursday at Imago Theatre

by BWW News Desk — September 19, 2017
Fans of Raymond Carver, one of the 20th century's most vital short story writers, will be delighted to find four of his earliest works staged in HUMAN NOISE, three stories and a poem directed and choreographed by Imago Theatre's Jerry Mouawad.
Pierre Bensusan, France's Acoustic Guitar Master, Presents Concert and Workshop in Po

Pierre Bensusan, France's Acoustic Guitar Master, Presents Concert and Workshop in Portland

by BWW News Desk — September 19, 2017
On Thursday September 21, Abbie's Concert Series in Portland Oregon is excited to present France's acoustic guitar master Pierre Bensusan for a second concert (his Sept 22 show is already sold out) - as part of the 30 date Fall leg of his 2017 USA Tour!
BWW Review: Sowelu Theatre's THE CRACKWALKER Will Haunt You Long After the Lights Go

BWW Review: Sowelu Theatre's THE CRACKWALKER Will Haunt You Long After the Lights Go Up

by Krista Garver — September 19, 2017
THE CRACKWALKER is bleak and it's hard to watch (at times, excruciating).
BWW Review: An Adventure Through Time and Technology in THE (CURIOUS CASE OF THE) WAT

BWW Review: An Adventure Through Time and Technology in THE (CURIOUS CASE OF THE) WATSON INTELLIGENCE, at CoHo Theatre

by Krista Garver — September 16, 2017
Madeleine George's Pulitzer Prize-nominated THE (CURIOUS CASE OF THE) WATSON INTELLIGENCE takes the audience on a journey through time (and several Watsons, from Alexander Graham Bell's assistant to Sherlock Holmes's sidekick to IBM's Jeopardy!-winning supercomputer) that explores the nature of our
Pierre Bensusan, France's Acoustic Guitar Master in Concert Comes to Axe & Fiddle

Pierre Bensusan, France's Acoustic Guitar Master in Concert Comes to Axe & Fiddle

by BWW News Desk — September 15, 2017
On Saturday September 23, Eugene Oregon area fans are excited to welcome France's acoustic guitar master Pierre Bensusan in concert at the Axe and Fiddle in Cottage Grove - as part of the 30 date Fall leg of his 2017 USA Tour! Winner of the Independent Music Award, in the Live Performance Album cat
BWW Review: Brutally Funny, AN OCTOROON Reflects and Shatters Our Ideas About Race, a

BWW Review: Brutally Funny, AN OCTOROON Reflects and Shatters Our Ideas About Race, at Artists Rep

by Krista Garver — September 14, 2017
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' AN OCTOROON is a play about the racist history of the United States and the continuing racial struggle we find ourselves in today.
CAUGHT Begins 10/1 at Artists Rep

CAUGHT Begins 10/1 at Artists Rep

by BWW News Desk — September 13, 2017
Artists Repertory Theatre presents Caught, a show centered around Chinese dissident artist Lin Bo that combines visual art and live theatre installations.

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